jquery ajax, array and json
- by sea_1987
I am trying to log some input values into an array via jquery and then use those to run a method server side and get the data returned as JSON.
The HTML looks like this, 
    <div class="segment">
               <div class="label">
                <label>Choose region: </label>
               </div>
<div class="column w190">
                    <div class="segment">
                        <div class="input">
                            <input type="checkbox" class="radio" value="Y" name="area[Nationwide]" id="inp_Nationwide">
                        </div>
                        <div class="label ">
                            <label for="inp_Nationwide">Nationwide</label>
                         </div>
                        <div class="s"> </div>
                    </div>
</div>
<div class="column w190">
                    <div class="segment">
                        <div class="input">
                            <input type="checkbox" class="radio" value="Y" name="area[Lancashire]" id="inp_Lancashire">
                        </div>
                        <div class="label ">
                            <label for="inp_Lancashire">Lancashire</label>
                         </div>
                        <div class="s"> </div>
                    </div>
</div>
<div class="column w190">
                    <div class="segment">
                        <div class="input">
                            <input type="checkbox" class="radio" value="Y" name="area[West_Yorkshire]" id="inp_West_Yorkshire">
                        </div>
                        <div class="label ">
                            <label for="inp_West_Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</label>
                         </div>
                        <div class="s"> </div>
                    </div>
               <div class="s"> </div>
       </div>
I have this javascript the detect whether the items are checked are not
if($('input.radio:checked')){
}
What I dont know is how to get the values of the input into an array so I can then send the information through AJAX to my controller. Can anyone help me?